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Recently there has been interest in using examining coaching practice through a lens of Professional Judgement and Decision Making. One core theory of decision making, Recognition Primed Decision Making, examines how people make decisions in limited time scales. Alternatively, when time allows, there is an opportunity for people to engage in slower...
This case study explored the professional judgement and decision making process of an athletic trainer, specifically focusing on the athletic training of an elite jockey. Using the Professional Judgement and Decision Making theory as a framework, the study investigated the cognitive processes, beliefs, and factors that influenced the first author's...
Introduction
Researchers exploring how coaches can best support the development of their players decision making within team invasion sports have often been conducted from a cognitive or ecological approach, which differ in their views regarding the presence and absence of memory representations. This difference has, in turn, resulted in practical...
Police recruits undertake mandatory training programmes to prepare for conflict situations. To motivate recruits to engage in what is called “police training” (“Polizeitraining” or “Einsatztraining”) in Germany, police trainers should design activities that align with what the recruits want from training. As such, the current study investigated the...
Rule changes in sport are relatively common. They are typically instigated in response to concerns around player safety (e.g., tackle height in rugby), game flow and entertainment (e.g., shot clock in basketball), or to facilitate talent development processes (e.g., reduced team size in junior football). The purpose of this study was to monitor the...
The current study aimed to elicit the planning and reflecting processes of police trainers with regards to the delivery of police training. Four police trainers were explicitly asked about their planning for and reflecting on training sessions. In total 34 interviews were conducted (17 pre, 17 post) and analysed. The results indicated that police t...
The current study explored police trainers’ perceptions of their actual and preferred methods of acquiring new coaching knowledge; the types of knowledge they currently require and/or desire; and how they apply new knowledge. A total of 163 police trainers from Germany and Austria participated in the study. The responses were analysed using an indu...
In order to optimally prepare police officers for the demands in the field, police training has to be designed representatively. However, for the German context, there is a scarcity of research investigating to what extent training meets the demands of the field. In order to fill this gap, the current study examined if police training in Germany me...
The current study aims to investigate the current structure and delivery of police recruit training. Using a case study approach, we systematically observed a semester of police training that consisted of 30 h with a specific focus on police use of force training. Field notes and time-on-task data was analysed using an inductive approach. The resul...
Over the past 50 years decision making research in team invasion sport has been dominated by three research perspectives, information processing, ecological dynamics, and naturalistic decision making. Recently, attempts have been made to integrate perspectives, as conceptual similarities demonstrate the decision making process as an interaction bet...
The current study aimed to elicit the planning and reflecting processes of police trainers with regards to the delivery of police training. Four police trainers were explicitly asked about their planning for and reflecting on training sessions. In total 34 interviews were conducted (17 pre, 17 post) and analysed. The results indicated that police t...
The current study investigated if police training meets the demands of the field of police officers based on the perspective of police recruits. Thirteen recruits of a German police force were interviewed in a semi-structured way to identify possible matches and discrepancies between training and the field. The qualitative data was analysed using c...
The current study investigated the wants and subjective needs of police recruits regarding mandatory training programmes that prepare officers for conflictual situations. Twenty-seven recruits of a German police force were interviewed to identify both positive and negative aspects of police training as well as the characteristics of a competent pol...
The current study explored police trainers’ perceptions of their actual and preferred methods of acquiring new coaching knowledge; the types of knowledge they currently require and/or desire; and their application of new knowledge. A total of 163 police trainers from Germany and Austria participated in the study. The responses were analysed using a...
The current study aims to investigate the current structure and delivery of police recruit training. Using a case study approach, we systematically observed a semester of police training that consisted of 30 hours with a specific focus on police use of force training. Field notes and time-on-task data was analysed using an inductive approach. The r...
Coping with violent conflict as an individual is a recurrent issue in society for civilians, private and public security, and the armed forces. Unsurprisingly, learning to deal with violent conflict has led to a proliferation of training provision for each of these sectors. Despite this proliferation, there is a dearth of evidence against which the...
The depiction and description of body techniques of combat have always been a part of martial arts culture. For example, self-defence techniques of the Israeli system of Krav Maga have routinely been depicted and described in books. More recently, the dissemination of similar knowledge has been presented within emerging modern technologies such as...
The depiction and description of body techniques of combat have always been a part of martial arts culture. For example, self-defence techniques of the Israeli system of Krav Maga have routinely been depicted and described in books. More recently, the dissemination of similar knowledge has been presented within emerging modern technologies such as...
Research has suggested that competition within talent identification and development systems should be modified from the adult format of the sport to meet the developmental needs of those participating. Yet limited research has evaluated the success of game changes, particularly the effectiveness of modifying the rules of a game to purposefully eng...
Invasion team sports coaches are faced with the problem of developing players that in any given situation can make decisions that lead to successful outcomes. Research into human decision-making has established three widely accepted perspectives, which sports coaching has used to understand player decision-making and inform practice; information pr...
Applied article published in Professional Strength and Conditioning, The Journal of the UK Strength and Conditioning Association
The depiction and description of body techniques of combat has always been a part of the martial arts culture. For example, self-defense techniques of the Israeli system of krav maga have routinely been depicted and described in books. More recently, the dissemination of similar knowledge has been presented within emerging modern technologies such...
The European Coaching Children Curriculum (ECCC) aims to provide guidance for those developing coach education opportunities for children and youth sport coaches. It highlights the key functional areas and tasks of the children and youth coach (CYC), the relevant competences required to fulfil the role, and signposts coach developers to the most up...
The purpose of the chapter is to overview a positive view of professionalisation that contrasts with recent positions that place responsibility for the coaching change process on individuals and small groups. Our position focuses on coaching change as a broader systemic improvement process enabled by the mobilisation of resource, notably, through s...
Background
The overarching objective of self-defence training is to equip trainees with a set of skills that can be effectively deployed across a range of conflict scenarios. Self-defence train-ing is a regular part of both police and military training; however, globally there appears little consensus or empirically informed practical guidance abou...
Decision-making is a key factor in developing coach expertise and effectiveness. This article presents a framework for enhancing coach decision-making within strength and conditioning (S&C). Based on theoretical understanding of the athlete (the ‘who’), S&C training principles and sport demands (the ‘what’) and learning theories and behaviour (the...
Einleitung
Im Rahmen des polizeilichen Einsatztrainings (ET) trainieren Polizeibeamte die Bewältigung von unterschiedlichsten Konfliktsituationen. Besonders in der Vorbereitung auf mögliche Angriffe gegen Polizeibeamte kommt dem ET eine wichtige Rolle zu (Jager, Klatt, & Bliesener, 2013; Renden, Savelsbergh, & Oudejans, 2016).
Die über einen länger...
The purpose of this curriculum is to provide a reference point for all those involved in children’s coaches’ education and development.
Whether you are creating a short apprentice coach qualification, a two-hour continuous professional development module or writing up a full three-year bachelor’s degree, the ECCC should provide a clear menu of opt...
The depiction and description of body techniques of combat has always been a part of the martial arts culture (Burkart, 2016). For example, self-defence techniques of the Israeli system of krav maga have been mainly depicted and described in books (Lichtenfeld & Yanilov, 2001). Alternatively, the dissemination of similar knowledge in now emerging u...
Background & Study Aim
Expert performance in self-defence situations has not been the subject of rigorous empirical investigation. This study aims to broaden knowledge regarding expertise in self-defence, its development and the role of contact, pain and injury in training, in order to stimulate future research activity.
Material & Methods
Semi-s...
Sport coaching is at a pivotal moment in its short history. The publication of the International Sport Coaching Framework by the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) in 2013 has drawn attention to coaching world-wide and fostered a step change in the way coaching systems are understood and built. Within this evolving context, higher...
The current study reports a qualitative phenomenological investigation of the development of expertise and the experience on learning environments in the domain of self-defence. Semi-structured interviews with two Israeli Krav Maga Experts are analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. This inductive approach aims to capture the richn...
In creating the role of the FA youth coach educator (FAYCE) in 2011 The Football
Association (The FA) were getting well ahead of the game when it came to coach
education. The role was created to work in partnership with youth academies of
professional football clubs to support the professional development and practice of
youth team coaches. This su...
As a point of reference I congratulate Simon Jenkins on tackling the issue of professionalism in coaching. As he points out coaching is not a profession, but this does not mean that coaching would not benefit from going through a professionalization process. As things stand I find that the stimulus article unpacks some critically important issues o...
1. Overview There is very little in life that doesn't need some sort of plan to facilitate the achievement of a goal, be it writing a shopping list, looking at a map to plan a route, or even putting a post code into a satellite navigation system! In essence planning is our attempt to predict the future so that when the future arrives we are prepare...
Introduction: This study attempts to understand the work of coach developers in the development
of coaches. There is currently little understanding of what people in these roles do and, therefore,
what their professional development needs are. Method: A total of 15 coach developer
professionals were engaged in data collection. Data was collected th...
Just as quality coaching is crucial for performance, so impactful coach devel- opment should be a central pillar of a psychologist’s, governing body’s, or even a government’s development plan. Given this importance, and against a backdrop which suggests that many coach development initiatives may lack impact, we con- sider certain individual charac...
Coaching is no longer a subset of physical education or sport psychology but is rather an established vocation for research. In reaching such a position, we argue that a broad range of epistemologies have been used to investigate coaching such as sociology and cognitive psychology. However there is danger that, in the search for new ground, researc...
Introduction – The Scope of this Chapter From the moment we are born we engage in skill development moving from a set of involuntary reflexive and spontaneous movements to the development of grasping, posture control and locomotion to more complex linked movements such as running, jumping, throwing, kicking, hitting etc (Haywood & Getchell 2005). M...
Projects: 1 National and International Best Practice: Research international and national best practice in the education and support of high performing coaches within the 4 x 4 model of coach development 2 Children's Coaching: Research and develop the future shape of UKCC Level 4 and related programmes of education and support for 'high performing'...
What underpins the development of an expert coach? Evidence from several sources would suggest that the answer to this question is a combination of work ethic and curiosity, playing and coaching experience, formal courses, and serendipity (i.e. being in the right place at the right time; being exposed to new ideas or ways of thinking via reading, o...
Research to effectively inform the design and conduct of talent development environments (TDEs) is sparse, especially relating to the goals and systems involved. Accordingly, this paper provides a detailed picture of effective goals and systems within TDEs in a UK context. A thorough examination of the goals, nature, and systems of 16 coaches with...
Current research in coaching development infers that coaching is predominantly a decision-making process. The same and other research is not, however, informing the coaching development process due to a lack of a big picture approach. Consequently, there is a need for a model of coaching. In this paper, we offer such a model in the form of a schema...
Research to date provides two approaches to assessing coaching expertise. The first is behavioral assessment and the second is to assess coaches' knowledge base. However, we contend that both approaches are flawed due to their inability to adequately improve coach development by failing to answer three fundamental questions: What knowledge should b...
